Me! I was a huge fan of Kevin Rose due to TechTV and jumped on board as soon as he released it.
I’m in a similar boat. I used slashdot occasionally (still do), but once I heard Kevin Rose was involved with digg, I started using the site heavily. I only stopped when digg v4 dropped.
I’ll have to see what he’s up to these days.
Although I think his heart is in the right place, he is essentially peddling bird NFTs.
There will never be someone as cool as Kate awkwardly dancing and saying “it’s menus a-poppin today on windows tips”
Leo Laporte was the bomb.
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I listen the “Classical Sprouts” podcast with my kids, hosted by Kate Botello. I think they get tired of my saying “I knew of her when she was a dorky co-host of a tech support tv show!”
Oh shoot. I gotta check this out.
Yeah I came in from the TechTV days too.
Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”
That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.
Fark man myself. We watched the Digg implosion with great smugness. Then everyone left for Reddit.
BEER
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I was on Fark, went to digg, then reddit.
I was using Stumbleupon back in Digg’s day
Yup
I used digg a fair amount before the v4 revamp
I was and used to watch the Diggnation podcast all the time. Loved Digg in its heyday, and it was sad when it went downhill. Reddit ended up being excellent though, and better than Digg ended up being. Sucks that it died too, but hopefully the Fediverse ends up finally being the chosen one.
Remember when podcasts were just audio? I guess I’m old.
Remember when there weren’t podcasts at all and you would have to get on a radio station to broadcast stuff?
Oh man, a few months ago my kid found an old boombox in the garage. It was awesome showing him “ok, here’s the knob and how you change stations” and explaining why he couldn’t just pick the song he wanted lol.
I was active on the snopes message board before Reddit. Snopes went all to hell right around the time I switched. Now the message boards are gone and the site itself is mostly the owner asking for money.
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn’t have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being “Digged”.
I still have my slashdot account but don’t use it much other than niche interest stuff. But otherwise same path for me.
And before that, sites got slash dotted
I was on digg as well as reddit. I always liked reddit a lot better and was always baffled as to why digg was so much more popular. Reddit always felt more diverse (in topics) and organic (user driven) to me. I guess others had a different view.
Sadly, no one no one seems to remember kuro5hin. Barely even me. It had its moments though.
I wasn’t a fan of reddit in digg’s heyday because the site looked rough compared to digg and I was more interested in the discussions on digg at the time.
I only started using reddit heavily when digg rolled out digg v4. Weirdly enough, reddit seemed to look better afterward, like they improved their ux since my last visit.
Interesting perspective. I had not considered the aesthetic angle.
I joined Digg sometime around 2008 when the first videos of those crazy Russians climbing giant cranes first hit the web. I was over the moon with Digg but around 2010 one of my college roommates started yammering about this site Reddit and how much better it was. I don’t think I actually visited Reddit until 2011, and even then I lurked for a year before I even made an account and started commenting on things. But the downfall of Digg and rise of Reddit was swift, and back then when Aaron was alive it really was a great site.
Even though I was in the prime age group for Digg, I shockingly never even heard of it until after I became a Reddit user and heard tales of its demise.
StumbleUpon was my main Internet resource during those years. I still miss it.
Good ole stumbleupon. I sure miss that site.
not quite stumbleupon but I’ve found the Marginalia search engine’s “random” feature pretty cool. it specifically only returns small/niche websites.
I switched from slashdot to Digg. Digg to Reddit when Digg started censoring the Blu-Ray decryption key (before v4), then was on Reddit until RIF shut down. I’m scheduled to get my 16 year badge this year I think. I haven’t posted or commented since RIF shut down though.
I’m debating whether to sell my account or delete it. $75 could buy a lot of printer filament.
When did you leave slashdot to Digg?
Where can you get $75 for your Reddit account?
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censoring the Blu-Ray decryption key
Interesting. I remembered the key being used for HD DVD, but apparently it was both.
That’s when I left as well and watched their v4 transition from afar.
I couldn’t speak English at that time, I can’t speak now, though. :)
Me fail English? Unpossible!
